EU COVID-19 recovery plan must lead the way towards Sustainable, Green and Inclusive Economies and Societies: SDG Watch Europe Statement Monday June 22nd, 2020

SDG Watch Europe, a CSO alliance of which GCAP is a Steering Group member, has released a statement demanding that the EU’s COVID-19 recovery plan leads to a more sustainable and inclusive society. The statement calls on EU Institutions and Member States to:

  • Let this be a wake-up call: our system is the problem! We need a paradigm shift
  • Implement immediate debt cancellation and stop any unjust austerity measures
  • Make the SDGs and the Paris Agreement the guidelines to get out of the crisis
  • Fight all other crises too
  • Strengthen the social protection system and make it accessible for all
  • Protect our democracies, human and civic rights
  • Lead the way to a socially and ecologically sustainable economic system with revised, green budgets
  • Ensure transparency of political decisions on COVID-19 and beyond, as well as full inclusion and participation of civil society
  • Link economic recovery to clear conditions and say no to bail-outs for polluters and tax havens
  • Show transformative global action against poverty and hunger

The statement was signed by nearly 40 CSOs and released in advance of EU Council meeting on COVID recovery on 19 June.

Read the full statement.

Signed by:

  • ACT Alliance EU
  • Association 4D – France
  • CEEweb for Biodiversity
  • Cooperatives Europe
  • CORE Platform
  • Culture Action Europe
  • End FGM European Network
  • EU-CORD
  • Eurodiaconia
  • Eurogroup for Animals
  • European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA)
  • European Disability Forum
  • European Environmental Bureau
  • European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
  • European Women’s Lobby (EWL)
  • Fern
  • Futuro en Común, Spanish cross-sectorial CSO platform working on SDG
  • German NGO Forum on Environment and Development
  • Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)
  • GCAP ITALY
  • INKOTA-netzwerk
  • Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS)
  • Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation LAPAS
  • LeAD GLocal
  • Light for the World
  • Lithuanian NGDO Platform
  • Make Mothers Matter
  • Nyt Europa
  • Povod, Institute for culture and development of international relations in culture
  • SDG Watch Austria
  • Seas At Risk
  • SLOGA Slovene NGO platform for development, global education and humanitarian aid
  • Social Platform
  • SOLIDAR
  • Wetlands International
  • Europe Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) International
  • Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) France
  • Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) Germany
  • Wontanara Czech Republic